(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Republican attacks on Workers, particularly Union Workers, continued as Republican President Donald Trump’s nominee for Labor Secretary - former U.S. Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer, disavowed her prior support of the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, while members of Congress’ ruling Republicans are again pushing a national Right-To-Work (for less) law.

The barrage began when Chavez-DeRemer not only opposed the PRO Act - a comprehensive Pro-Worker Labor Law reform, but supported Trump’s power to cut Federal programs and funds.

It worsened when U.S. Sen. Edward Markey (Democrat-Massachusetts) announced to the jammed hearing room of the U.S. Senate’s Labor Committee that Trump had issued an Executive Order asserting monarchical rule over the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Independent Agency that decides Worker-boss conflicts and runs Union Elections.

Chavez-DeRemer backtracked from her prior co-sponsorship of the PRO Act.

What she didn’t tell Senators is she backed it last August, after it was effectively dead.

She endorsed it then to ensure her Oregon constituents “could have a seat at the table” on Labor Laws.

But when U.S. Senator Rand Paul (Republican-Kentucky) - the Senate sponsor of a National Right-To-Work Bill, which the PRO Act would override - bluntly asked her: “Do you no longer support the section of the PRO Act that outlaws State Right-To-Work Laws?”

Chavez-DeRemer’s one-word answer was: “Yes.”

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